IMPACT AAPI

Staff Development Sessions

To support our other grant activities, we will be holding regular staff development events and workshops to help faculty and staff gain insight into how to support our AAPI students and help them flourish.

Below are summaries of past and future Staff Development Sessions. To see previous Staff Development sessions offered under the first IMPACT AAPI project (2008 - 2011), click here.

Curriculum Modules

These modules are broken into four parts: Introduction and the Model Minority Myth, Southeast Asian American, Filipino American, and Pacific Islander American. Lessons for each module are designed to cover a class that has 1 hour and 50 minutes per meeting.

Voice of Witness Oral History Workshop

Learn how to integrate oral history/storytelling into your coursework.

Part 1: Friday, November 14, 2014 from 9:30am - 12:30pm in the California History Center Classroom

Focus on the philosophy behind doing this sort of storytelling/oral history work and its power to teach, and issues related (ethical, etc.). Includes practice activities (interviewing, listening, etc.). Participants can be assigned to create an interview.

Part 2: Friday, January 16, 2015 from 9:30am - 12:30pm in the California History Center Classroom

Focus on the more technical aspects of editing and creating the story so it expresses the interviewee's life in the most powerful and effective way.

Second Film Screening and Talk by Johnny Itliong

The Delano Manongs tells the story of farm labor organizer Larry Itliong and a group of Filipino farm workers who instigated one of the American farm labor movement's finest hours - The Delano Grape Strike of 1965 that brough about the creation of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW).

Vincent Tinto to Speak at De Anza College

LinC (Learning in Communities) will host a talk by Vincent Tinto, noted author, research and advocate of "first-time college students," on Friday, May 2 from 10am to 12pm in Room MLC 105. His talk is sponsored in part by IMPACT AAPI.

Tinto's research documents how those workin in higher eduction can better assist students as they move toward their goal of completing college, which is the subject of his latest book, Completing College: Rethinking Institutional Action.

Oceans of Impact: You + Good Pedagogy

discuss the model minority myth: How are students from the Southeast Asian (SEA), Filipino, and Pacific Islander communities overlooked when it comes to discussions about under representation in higher education?

watch videos with interviews from students, faculty, and staff that discuss the different challenges students from these communities face

learn a brief history of each population: How do their immigration or refugee stories affect their perceptions of education?

Attend a short 50-minute "Fly By" workshop on one of our targeted subgroups, or an All-Together training that includes all 4 videos followed by a lively discussion.

Did you know?! You can watch the video portion of Oceans of Impact on De Anza College iTunesU (Search: Oceans of Impact).